Python Jobs in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 25 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -18 +9
Permanent jobs citing Python 262 448 898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.48% 6.80% 14.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.42% 22.28% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 168 323 317
10th Percentile £38,375 £37,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,200 £35,034
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £91,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £61,700
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.81% +7.65%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 784 2,011 2,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.37% 30.51% 39.71%
Number of salaries quoted 560 1,604 1,406
10th Percentile £37,150 £37,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,375 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +13 116 £61,250 +2.08% 135
Oxfordshire +3 93 £62,500 +13.64% 98
Buckinghamshire +15 53 £60,000 +14.29% 77
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.05%) Confluence
2 6 (2.29%) Apache
3 4 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.53%) IIS
4 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.76%) Simulink
4 2 (0.76%) Zemax
5 1 (0.38%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.68%) AWS
2 68 (25.95%) Azure
3 35 (13.36%) Serverless
4 28 (10.69%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (9.54%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (8.02%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.11%) GCP
8 15 (5.73%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.96%) Snowflake
9 13 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.82%) SaaS
11 8 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (3.05%) PaaS
12 7 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (2.67%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.67%) GitHub
12 7 (2.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.58%) Firewall
2 9 (3.44%) 5G
2 9 (3.44%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.44%) DNS
2 9 (3.44%) LTE
2 9 (3.44%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (3.05%) Internet
3 8 (3.05%) SSL
4 5 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.53%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.53%) Ethernet
5 4 (1.53%) Multicast
5 4 (1.53%) VPN
6 2 (0.76%) DWDM
6 2 (0.76%) GPON
6 2 (0.76%) IPv4
6 2 (0.76%) MPLS
6 2 (0.76%) MQTT
6 2 (0.76%) RS-232
6 2 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.98%) Relational Database
3 20 (7.63%) Power BI
4 19 (7.25%) RDBMS
5 16 (6.11%) MySQL
6 15 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.96%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.58%) Data Lake
9 11 (4.20%) Metadata
10 9 (3.44%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.05%) MongoDB
11 8 (3.05%) Tableau
12 6 (2.29%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.53%) Big Data
13 4 (1.53%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.53%) Metabase
14 3 (1.15%) Pinecone
14 3 (1.15%) Weaviate
15 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (13.36%) Git
2 29 (11.07%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.87%) JUnit
4 17 (6.49%) JMeter
4 17 (6.49%) Mockito
5 12 (4.58%) JIRA
6 11 (4.20%) GitLab
7 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.15%) LabVIEW
8 3 (1.15%) MLflow
8 3 (1.15%) Selenium
9 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.76%) Mocha
9 2 (0.76%) Moq
9 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.76%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.38%) CMake
10 1 (0.38%) Postman
10 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.21%) Public Sector
3 28 (10.69%) Electronics
4 23 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.87%) Manufacturing
6 16 (6.11%) Finance
7 13 (4.96%) Law
8 11 (4.20%) Aerospace
9 10 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.53%) Advertising
12 4 (1.53%) Back Office
12 4 (1.53%) Games
12 4 (1.53%) Local Government
12 4 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.15%) Automotive
13 3 (1.15%) Legal
14 2 (0.76%) Marketing
14 2 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (20.99%) Software Engineer
2 51 (19.47%) Senior
3 49 (18.70%) Developer
4 30 (11.45%) Lead
5 21 (8.02%) Senior Software Engineer
6 19 (7.25%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.87%) Analyst
8 13 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) Python Engineer
9 12 (4.58%) Data Scientist
9 12 (4.58%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Junior
11 10 (3.82%) Principal Software Engineer
12 9 (3.44%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.05%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.69%) REST
2 26 (9.92%) HTML
3 23 (8.78%) React
4 21 (8.02%) jQuery
5 18 (6.87%) Web Services
6 17 (6.49%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (6.49%) Apache Camel
6 17 (6.49%) Hibernate
6 17 (6.49%) Spring
6 17 (6.49%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.49%) WireMock
7 13 (4.96%) .NET
7 13 (4.96%) Node.js
8 12 (4.58%) Django
9 10 (3.82%) CSS
10 9 (3.44%) Flutter
10 9 (3.44%) JSON
10 9 (3.44%) Qt
10 9 (3.44%) XML
11 8 (3.05%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.60%) Algorithms
2 23 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.63%) IoT
4 15 (5.73%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (4.58%) Molecular Biology
6 10 (3.82%) Embedded Systems
7 9 (3.44%) NB-IoT
8 8 (3.05%) Client/Server
8 8 (3.05%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.67%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.91%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.15%) Acoustics
13 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.15%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (30.92%) Linux
2 21 (8.02%) Windows
3 16 (6.11%) Unix
4 13 (4.96%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.29%) Debian
5 6 (2.29%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.91%) SUSE
6 5 (1.91%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 4 (1.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (25.95%) Software Engineering
2 51 (19.47%) Agile
3 50 (19.08%) CI/CD
4 45 (17.18%) Analytics
5 44 (16.79%) Microservices
5 44 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (16.41%) Machine Learning
7 41 (15.65%) DevOps
8 38 (14.50%) Computer Science
9 37 (14.12%) Workflow
10 36 (13.74%) Artificial Intelligence
11 35 (13.36%) Collaborative Working
12 34 (12.98%) Open Source
12 34 (12.98%) Software Testing
13 29 (11.07%) Physics
14 28 (10.69%) Mathematics
15 26 (9.92%) Data Analysis
15 26 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (9.92%) Validation
16 25 (9.54%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (24.43%) C++
1 64 (24.43%) SQL
2 48 (18.32%) Java
2 48 (18.32%) JavaScript
3 36 (13.74%) Bash
3 36 (13.74%) C
4 32 (12.21%) PowerShell
5 26 (9.92%) C#
5 26 (9.92%) Shell Script
6 17 (6.49%) Go
7 16 (6.11%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.73%) MATLAB
9 14 (5.34%) Fortran
10 13 (4.96%) Perl
11 11 (4.20%) Ruby
11 11 (4.20%) Rust
12 8 (3.05%) R
13 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.15%) VB
14 2 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 84 (32.06%) Degree
2 50 (19.08%) Security Cleared
3 48 (18.32%) SC Cleared
4 36 (13.74%) Master's Degree
5 23 (8.78%) PhD
6 16 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (5.73%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (3.44%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.53%) A+ Certification
11 4 (1.53%) Dell Certification
11 4 (1.53%) MCP
12 3 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (1.15%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.76%) HND
14 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.38%) HNC
14 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.96%) QA
4 3 (1.15%) ECSS
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) CDISC
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (22.14%) Docker
2 21 (8.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.34%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.44%) vSphere
5 7 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.91%) NFS
7 4 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.15%) HDFS
8 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.76%) Firmware
10 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (20.23%) Kubernetes
2 38 (14.50%) Terraform
3 27 (10.31%) Ansible
4 17 (6.49%) Kibana
5 9 (3.44%) Puppet
6 8 (3.05%) ZABBIX
7 6 (2.29%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.53%) Graylog
8 4 (1.53%) Nessus
8 4 (1.53%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.15%) Grafana
9 3 (1.15%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.15%) SCCM
10 2 (0.76%) Packer
11 1 (0.38%) Argo
11 1 (0.38%) Consul
11 1 (0.38%) Netcool
11 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.40%) VMware
3 19 (7.25%) Splunk
4 16 (6.11%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.58%) SAP
6 9 (3.44%) Databricks
7 6 (2.29%) Oracle
7 6 (2.29%) Sawtooth Software
8 4 (1.53%) Apple
8 4 (1.53%) Arista
8 4 (1.53%) Cisco
8 4 (1.53%) Dell
8 4 (1.53%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.53%) Juniper
8 4 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.15%) Citrix
9 3 (1.15%) IBM
9 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.76%) AppDynamics